Page No 220-226
Poonam Punia Sandeep Berwal
B P S Women University, Sonepat Chaudhary Ranbir Singh University, Jind
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This paper describes the effect of gender, type of school and degree of impairment on
the alienation of children with visual impairment. The data was collected from a sample
of 200 children with visual impairment from different schools of Haryana, India by using
multi-stage random sampling technique. Alienation level of these students was assessed
by using Alienation Scale for Visually Impaired (AS-VI) prepared and standardized by
the authors themselves. The two-way ANOVA and multiple regression were employed
to analyse the data. ANOVA results interpreted the main effect of degree of visual
impairment; however, no interaction effect between the independent variables was
established. Further, multiple regression results revealed that gender, type of school
and degree of impairment accounts for 21.6 percent of the variation in alienation of
children with visual impairment. The findings demonstrate the main effect of degree
of impairment on the feeling of alienation. The type of school was found to be largest
contributor out of three independent variables entered in regression model as reflected
from the value of beta coefficient.